A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 4

Knowing the words (boss, colleague, appraisal, short-staffed) lets you understand what is really going on when work comes home.

Who acts: Knowing, you, work · What happens: know, staff, let, understand, go on, come · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knowing, you, work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 lets	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowing	obj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 boss	punct
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 colleague	punct
7	colleague	colleague	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 appraisal	punct
9	appraisal	appraisal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lets	punct
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lets	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
13	staffed	staff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 short	conj
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
15	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 understand	nsubj
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lets	xcomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 going	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 understand	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 going	compound:prt
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 comes	advmod
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comes	nsubj
25	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	advcl
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 comes	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	gerund		the words		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	staff	participle	Knowing not said here			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	let	present	Knowing			tree rules
4	understand	infinitive	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go on	present · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	present	work		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:4.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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